The history of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, By a committee of the Dorchester antiquarian and historical society ...

550 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
LLOYD BOWERS HALL, born in Raynham, it is believed, in 1770, was a son of Col. Noah and Abiah
(Dean) Hall, a family of considerable note and standing in that town. The mother of Lloyd was a
daughter of Thomas Dean, of the same place. Mr.,
Hall graduated at Brown University, R. I., in the
class of 1794-studied law with James Sproat, Esq.,
of Taunton, but never practised. He taught the
new school at the Lower Mills Village, in 1803, being the successor of Daniel Leeds, Jr. Mr. H. died
at Raynham, in the year 1835. He was never married.
STEPHEN HALE, son of Rev. Moses and Elizabeth
Hale, was born in Boxford, Mass., about the year
1780; graduated at Harvard College in 1802; married Nancy, daughter of Abraham and Patience
(Blake) Howe, of Dorchester, Dec. 6th, 1808, and died
in West Newbury, at the house of his sister, Mrs.
Eliphalet Emery, in the month of September, it is
thought, of 1844. His wife died at the house of
her brother, Rev. James Blake Howe, in Claremont,
N. H., March 19th, 1829. They had three children.*
WILKES ALLEN, son of Elnathan and Thankful
(Hastings) Allen, was born in Shrewsbury, Mass.,
July 10th, 1775; graduated at Harvard College in
1801; was the first teacher in the brick schoolhouse, in Dorchester, District No. 1; was ordained
at Chelmsford, the 16th of November, 1803; dismissed at his own request, Oct. 21st, 1832; removed
* See " Blake Family," page 54.